Pelosi seeks testimony from two ex-secretaries in Democratic officials' surveillance case

Washington-Sana

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi today demanded that two former attorney generals from the administration of former President Donald Trump testify over the "rogue" abuses of secretly obtaining information on Democratic officials.

"What the Trump administration, his team, and the Department of Justice have done goes beyond even the scandal of former US President Richard Nixon," Pelosi told CNN, referring to the Watergate scandal that toppled him at the time.

"It's about undermining the rule of law," Pelosi said, adding: "For Attorney Generals Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions, saying they knew nothing about it was unbelievable and required that they testify under oath."

When asked if she would summon the two ministers if necessary, Pelosi said she hoped they would respect the rule of law. The Justice Department was a "rogue" in the Trump era, and she understood that in many ways.

Pelosi considered it necessary to determine whether those involved in this operation, whose targets included Democratic Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, were still in the Department of Justice and said, "No matter who the president is and what party he belongs to, this cannot be the way things are “.

On the other hand, Pelosi announced that she will decide next Monday whether to appoint a special committee to investigate the storming of Trump supporters into the Capitol building in an attempt to mobilize the required votes.

On the sixth of last January, groups of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building at his instigation, and the violence in the Capitol resulted in the killing of five people and the arrest of dozens.